The Met Police Is Institutionally Misogynistic: How To Fight It?
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 7 October 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
The horror of the murder of Sarah Everard by a police officer has been compounded by the reaction of the Metropolitan Police and other police forces: ranging from telling women to flag down a bus if they're frightened during an arrest to outright victim blaming - and a total failure to take any meaningful action.
With police failures to tackle violence against girls and women - not least within its own ranks - how is the institutionalised misogyny of the police fought?
We're really honoured to be joined by two brilliant experts, activists and thinkers - Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone and welcome to the show. Now today's show really couldn't be more important |
| 0:12.4 | and the guests I'm going to introduce to you are two guests who are just so lucky to have. |
| 0:18.3 | You'll often see that sometimes I do shout outs with social media when I want guests |
| 0:23.0 | on just to get just people's general sense about the voices they most like to hear at any |
| 0:27.7 | given moment and the two voices here I'm going to bring in people were unanimous that they were |
| 0:33.7 | the voices they wanted to hear from in terms of people who are calling for the radical drastic |
| 0:39.3 | action that's needed. We're talking today about police and institutional misogyny in the aftermath |
| 0:46.3 | of course of the police murdered by a police officer and it's important to emphasize that |
| 0:51.7 | and I'll explain why in a second by a police officer of Sarah Everard and the aftermath of that. |
| 0:57.6 | Now the statistics in terms of violence against girls and women the pandemic are terrifying. |
| 1:04.6 | 1.4 million women face domestic violence a year in this country. 400,000 women a year are |
| 1:11.4 | sexually assaulted. Around 90,000 women of rate sexual harassment is pandemic on the streets of |
| 1:20.7 | this country and obviously in the society in which we live we're often told that the protectors |
| 1:28.7 | of girls and women from that violence are the police. Now Sarah Everard was killed by a police |
| 1:34.8 | officer and again the reason I say this is several police officers have spoken out as though |
| 1:42.6 | he wasn't a police officer. They've spoken of him is they don't see him as one of their own but |
| 1:47.6 | he was a police officer and the reason it's important to say that is there is an attempt by |
| 1:53.8 | much of the police to wash their hands of not an isolated incident not one off but a extreme |
| 2:01.0 | example of something which goes to the heart of the nature of the modern police force. Now |
| 2:08.2 | Wayne Cousins was nicknamed the rapist by his colleagues because of how uncomfortable he made |
| 2:14.0 | women. Action wasn't taken against him despite complaints against him. He allegedly shared |
| 2:20.6 | what's that message with police colleagues which are sexist, homophobic and racist. |
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